An attempt to reproduce faithfully on the stage the surface appearance of life, especially that of ordinary people in everyday situations
What is Realsim
100
the area within actor preform the play
What is the stage?
100
a play for theatre radio or television
What is drama?
100
What is the first phase in modern drama?
What is Realism
100
Actors were under paid and subjected to harsh criticism for what reason?
What is they promoted hard living and sin
200
A type of drama in which the characters are present as products or victims of environmental and heredity
What is Naturalism
200
A famous playhouse in london where many of shakespeares plays were preformed
What is the london globe theatre?
200
The Father of Modern drama
Who is Henrik Iben
200
what time were most plays seen?
What is 2 O'Clock in the afternoon
300
A style of drama that avoids direct statement and exposition for powerful evocation and suggestion
What is Symbolism drama
300
An architectural picture frame or gateway that separates the auditorium from the raised stage and the world of the play
What is the Proscenium arch?
300
A type of drama that combines elements of both tragedy and comedy
What is tragicomedy?
300
This was one of the reasons why Ibsen's plays were so realistic
What is 3-dimensional sets
300
What year were women allowed to participate in the theater?
What is the year 1660
400
A dramatic style developed between 1910 and 1924 in Germany in reaction against Realism's focus on surface details and external reality
What is expressionism?
400
A stage that holds the actin within a proscenium arch, with painted scene panels designed to give the illusion of three dimensional perspective.
What is a picture-frame stage?
400
The appearance of a comic situation or character or clownish humor in the midst of a serious action, introducing a sharp contrast in mood
What is comic relief?
400
What 3 men helped modern drama move forward after Ibsen
Who are Shaw, Strindberg, and Chekhov
400
What year were play houses constructed in London?
What is the year 1576
500
postwar european genre depicting the grotesquely comic plight of human beings thrown by accident into an irrational and meaningless world.
What is Theater of the absurd?
500
A stage set consisting of three walls joined in two corners and a ceiling that tilts, as if seen in perspective, to provide the illusion of scenic realism for interior rooms.
What is a box set?
500
A protagonist who is lacking in one or more of the conventional qualities attributed to a hero
What is a antihero?
500
Who created "The Stage Director Par of Excellence"
Who is Stanislavsky
500
In Shakespearean theater where were the most expensive seats?